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Articles posted by Shannon Hartman Wheatley

The High Rocks Academy & Collaborative Discussion Program

September 24, 2019 / Shannon Hartman Wheatley / Blog, Education

This summer the Interactivity Foundation partnered with the High Rocks Academy in West Virginia to offer a pilot program in Collaborative Discussion. Instructors Tristan Nutter and Thea Rossman worked with the Interactivity Foundation to create a new summer camp track focused on collaborative discussions skills. Since 1996, High Rocks has offered a residential summer camp … Read more »

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Community-based Learning and The Role of Exploratory Discussions

September 28, 2018 / Shannon Hartman Wheatley / Blog, Education

Community-based learning is education that takes place off college campus. With community partners as co-educators, students and faculty collaborate on shared learning, co-construction of knowledge, and civic action projects. This year, the Interactivity Foundation has been engaging with scholars and practitioners of community-based learning to learn more about this process and examine what role, if … Read more »

Read More Community, Global Citizenship, Haverford

New Guidebook! Agri-Culture & The Future of Farming

September 28, 2018 / Shannon Hartman Wheatley / Blog

Don’t know what to discuss at Thanksgiving dinner? Terrified of talking about current events? Breathe easy. We’ve got you covered. Invite your family to discuss Agri-Culture & The Future of Farming. This is our newest exploratory discussion guide that examines the future of agriculture, rural communities, and farming trends in the United States. Over the … Read more »

Read More Agriculture, Community, discussion guide, farming, food, sustainability

Walk Out, or Walk In?

March 5, 2018 / Shannon Hartman Wheatley / Blog

By:  Marc Erlbaum, founder of the Common Party Originally posted on Medium and re-posted here with the author’s permission. In the wake of the Parkland shooting, millions of people around the country are both anxious, and anxious to react. The frequency of mass shootings in the U.S. has brought us to a boiling point which … Read more »

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IF Fellow at Haverford College

October 3, 2017 / Shannon Hartman Wheatley / Blog

IF fellow, Shannon Wheatley Hartman, is visiting this year at Haverford College as a fellow-in-residence at the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship. She is working with the center on the development of campus and community discussions with a particular focus on diversity and inclusion. She is also teaching a course that interrogates the intersections of … Read more »

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Reflections on My First Time Teaching an Online Course

December 29, 2016 / Shannon Hartman Wheatley / Blog

By  Timothy Ruback, Ph.D. I teach Political Science, I started teaching in spring of 2002, and lasted more than a decade in higher education without ever having taught an internet course.  More than that, being of a certain age, I never took an online course when I was a student.  I had no first-hand experience … Read more »

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The Guidebook for Student-Facilitated Discussion in Online Courses is Now Available!

January 25, 2016 / Shannon Hartman Wheatley / Blog, Education, Public Discussion Blog

Now available for free download are the Guidebooks for Student-Facilitated Discussion in Online Courses (Student and Teacher Editions). These guidebooks offer a practical guide for students and instructors in online courses. They offer a step-by-step guide to our 3-part online discussion process: Pre-discussion collaboration between student-facilitator(s) and instructor Student-facilitated discussion of exploratory, civil, and developmental student discussions … Read more »

Read More Classroom Discussions, discussion, facilitation, guidebook, interactivity, online, student

IF Collaborates with the Wendell Berry Center

December 31, 2015 / Shannon Hartman Wheatley / Blog

The Berry Center in New Castle, Kentucky and the Interactivity Foundation have been collaborating on a new, long-term discussion project on Agri-Culture & the Future of Rural Life. In November, we co-hosted a developmental discussion in Lexington, Kentucky. Students and faculty from Berea College, the University of Kentucky, and St. Catharine College came together to … Read more »

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Educating Community Facilitators, The K-State Experience

December 31, 2015 / Shannon Hartman Wheatley / Blog

As the semester winds down, I am almost ready to reflect on my experience teaching Leadership in Practice at Kansas State University. As a fellow in residence in the Staley School for Leadership Studies (SLS), I engaged this course with the goal of training students to become community discussion facilitators. Like almost all IF and … Read more »

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